The CertificationZone.com Web site, sponsored by Genium Publishing Corp. of Schenectady, N.Y., posts a monthly quiz that simulates the real tests network administrators must pass to receive CCIE and other certifications.

A $35, two-hour faux quiz has 100 questions; you need 65 correct answers to pass. The free, 15-minute demonstration version has 10 multiple-choice questions such as, "Which of the following statements (A, B, C or D) is true about frame-relay committed information rate?"

Lab Notes bets the correct answer is B: "CIR is the amount of data the frame relay provider promises to deliver across the circuit." But we didn't take the whole quiz. Perhaps a GCN/State & Local reader will undergo the ordeal and describe it for us. Write to labnotes@gcn.com.

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